Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Orbital Atk, Inc.

Deployable Space Systems, Inc.

Peter O Sorensen

Stephen F White

Brian R Spence

William A Llorens

David Michael Murphy

Mark V Douglas

Matthew Alan Michel

Michael Edward McEachen

Michael Foster

Ronald S Takeda

Noel T Gregory

Jason Z Schmidt

Jeffrey Braden

T Jeffrey Harvey

Capture assemblies and compliant extension assemblies may be utilized for insertion into a nozzle of a liquid engine of a spacecraft. The capture assembly may include an apparatus such as a probe for insertion into the nozzle and an assembly at least partially enclosed in a forward portion of the probe. The assembly may include a plurality of actuated fingers for deploying outwardly from the probe when the probe is inserted into the nozzle. The compliant extension assembly may be at least partially enclosed in a housing connected to the capture assembly for axial movement of the probe. The compliant extension assembly may facilitate axial movement of the probe between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the probe is extended forwardly, relative to the housing.

Systems for capturing a client vehicle

A large area, deployable flexible blanket photovoltaic solar array architecture for high power applications is disclosed. The structure is a modularized and scalable solar array system that provides high power level scalability. The structure is comprised of repeating, similar modular deployable roll-out solar array wings mounted in an opposing manner and along the length of a rigid, strong and efficiently packaged deployable backbone structure. The deployable roll-out solar array building block modular 'winglet' elements can be comprised of either a rolled or z-folded flexible photovoltaic blanket configuration, and their structural deployment is motivated by the elastic strain energy of longitudinal roll-out booms. The backbone structure is comprised of a stiff deployable beam structure articulated that is deployed perpendicular with respect to the spacecraft sidewall and latched out. Deployment of the 'winglets' can be conducted once the articulated backbone structure has been deployed, is latched, and forms a rigid beam.

Space solar array architecture for ultra-high power applications

A solar array including a solar array assembly, hub assembly, and wing assembly.

Solar arrays

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Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Peter O Sorensen